KHL
SKA St. Petersburg – Mytishchi 4:1 (end)
final
SKA St. Petersburg
4:1 (3:0, 1:0, 0:1)
Atlant Mytishchi
Friday 29.11.2013, 16:00 • Ice Palace, St. Petersburg • KHL
     
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    Stats:

    Shots on goal: 27-29
    Face-offs won: 25-32
    Penalty in minutes: 26-8
     
    In this match SKA made a definite win mostly thanks for their perfect end of first period. The rest of the game quite eventless SKA was concentrating on hold their lead and Atlant could not break home team's tight defense. The end of the match was eventful again and visiting team was able to cut their deficit to three, but it was most that they could manage. SKA strengthened their leading position on the table of Western Conference. They have already 71 points and 7 points lead against the second spot standing Dynamo Moscow, while Atlant have still 37 points and remained on the 11th spot of Western Conference.
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:20
    Mikhnov's attempt was denied by Salak by a pad-save.
     
    58:19
    Ponikarovsky is in the penalty box now for high-sticking.
     
    58:00
    Two minutes left.
     
    55:55
    Goal for Atlant!
    ROMAN RUKAVISHNIKOV got the puck in the middle from Engqvist and carried it towards the right circle, then suddenly fired just under the bar, 4-1! Assist: Juha-Pekka Haataja, Andreas Engqvist.
     
    55:29
    Makarov's shot was denied by Borisov, then Sigaryov's repeat was saved too.
     
    55:00
    Five minutes to go.
     
    54:16
    Visiting team at full strength.
     
    53:30
    Fortunately the match is exciting again by now. In the end of the match both teams are trying to finish the match well.
     
    52:16
    Soshnikov is in the penalty box for two minutes for slashing.
     
    52:02
    Kucheryavenko got the puck by the right post, but he was waiting too much to fire, so lost the puck.
     
    51:42
    Panarin made a sudden shot from the right, but it was not dangerous.
     
    50:35
    The puck was bouncing to-and-fro, then finally Koltsov got it and made a one-timer shot, but was blocked.
     
    50:01
    The last ten minutes of the match is on.
     
    49:39
    Home team at full strength.
     
    49:20
    Soshnikov's attempt from the blue line was not strong enough, so Salak stopped it easily.
     
    48:49
    Shishkanov had got the puck on the left and was coming forward and fired, but Salak deflected the puck behind him.
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    Salacz Bence

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 17. Semenov (Cervenka, Kalinin), 18. Ketov (Tikhonov, Chudinov), 20. Chudinov (Panarin), 29. Kovalchuk (Shipachyov) – 56. Rukavishnikov (Haataja, Engqvist)

    SKA St. Petersburg: Salak (Korobov) – Semenov, Chudinov, Kovalchuk, Thoresen, Shipachyov – Kalinin, Kuteikin, Tikhonov, Ketov, Cervenka – Alexandrov, Ryasensky, Kucheryavenko, Ponikarovsky, Panarin – Yudin, Makarov, Sigaryov, Burdasov
    Atlant Mytishchi: Borisov (Galimov) – Novopashin, Batyrshin, Kopytin, Kablukov, Koltsov – Petrov, Rukavishnikov, Mikhnov, Engqvist, Haataja – Atyusov, Dyblenko, Trubachyov, Glukhov, Smelyov – Velikov, Levitsky, Kadeikin, Shevchenko, Soshnikov
    Referees: Alexei Belov, Denis Naumov – Dmitry Golyak, Ivan Dedyulya
    Attendance: 12281